Red Hat – Oracle RAC and McAfee

Solved! The trick is to re-register the instance resource. As root:

crs_stat -p ora.db.instance1.inst > /tmp/ora.db.instance1.inst.cap

Edit /tmp/ora.db.instance1.inst.cap and add the vip resource to REQUIRED_RESOURCES

Run:

crs_register ora.db.instance1.inst -d /tmp -u

the "-u", I'm guessing is update, does the magic. After that you need to re set permission (or maybe run the whole thing as "oracle" user)

crs_setperm ora.db.instance1.inst -o oracle
crs_setperm ora.db.instance1.inst -g dba
crs_setperm ora.db.instance1.inst -u pgrp:dba:rwx

That's it. Run a

crs_stat -p crs_stat -p ora.db.instance1.inst

to make sure the changes have been saved and restart the instance

This is relevent to 10.2.0.4

I've a 4 node oltp rac database and a 3 node dw rac database using IB as interconnects.
We use cisco IB switches and cisco IB cards. We use IP over IB as the interconnect protocol. So far we are quite please with the results. Never had an issue with the interconnect traffic. We've come close to saturating our gigE public interface but no where close to the IB bandwidth. All 7 nodes are connected to 2 infiniband switches setup in active/passive failover configuration.